A New Way to Pay: Waving Your Wallet at the Computer

Forget Google Wallet. A London-based startup has created object, pose and gesture recognition technology that could let you merely wave your wallet at a computer screen to initiate an online payment.

That's just one of many possible applications for Seemove, a technology from Seeper. As the video below illustrates, Seemove can be used for Minority Report- and Iron Man types of pose and gesture-recognition that will let you pretend you're Tom Cruise or Tony Stark. Only here, as well as manipulating a computer with hand and arm movements, you can also train the system to recognize any object, like your smartphone allowing you to then literally "pull" photos and videos from your device. Read more...